Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-05
CURIOUS PULPITS.
Their Materials. Antiquity and Interesting
Historical Associations.


Historical Associations.
Some pulpits are curious on account
of their materials, as in the case of
some Spanish examples, when the
familiar stone or marble and wood are
abandoned in favor of iron. There are
two of these iron pulpits in the Cathe-
dral of Zamora, lined with wood, and
standing on stone bases; and there is
another in San Gil Burgos, which has
rich open tracery of iron-work IS laid.
There was once an iron pulpit in Dur
ham Cathedral. And there is to be
one in the new American Church in the
Rue Montaigne, Paris, which is to have
semicircular front divided into panels
filled with scroll-work, and raised on
marble base to the height of the
entrance to it, which is pierced through
the wall.
Some pulpits are curious on account
of their antiquaries, such as the marble
and mosaic examples-dnabones anti
quarians call them-in Rome, in S.
Lorenzo fuori lie Mura and S. Gle
mente and at Salerno and Ravenna,
from which the Epistle and the Gospel
used to be read seven and eight hun
dred years ago. Others are interest
ing on account of the preachers who
have discoursed from them, such as
John Knox's pulpit, John Bunyan's
pulpit; or of some association with
celebrated preachers, as that of St.
Margaret's Westminster; or on ac-
count of their donors, as in the case of
St. Mary Abbots' pulpit, presented by
George w.; or of that in the nave of
Westminster Abbey, composed of
variegated marbles and mosaic and in
scribed: This pulpit is presented to
the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
by few friends, in grateful commence
ration of the opening of the nave for
public worship and preaching in Janu-
airy, 1853"
Others, again. attract our attention
on account of their situation being I'M
| usual, as in case of that in the Holme
Lacey Church, which is placed in the
south aisle of the nave, much of the
great body of the building being left
| unconsidered, save by the sunshine and
silence, and soft Herefordshire zephyrs,
and perhaps the scent of flowers borne
| by them from the superb yew avenues
of flower gardens of the neighboring
hall.
Ross Church, the church where the
Man of Ross worshiped, in which we
may see the monument put up to his
memory on the north wan of the chan
eel. within the rails, and the pew in
which he sat, in the north transept
with two tall trees growing in it that
have insinuated themselves from the
church-yard without, through the
masonry of the outer wall, has an
open paneled pulpit. Each of its eight
panels has rosette-like star carved in
the center of it, and there is nodded
cornice running round the ledge. 1t
is now raised three steps from the
chancel floor, but was formerly higher.
There are three doors in the masonry
close to it, which once gave access to a
turret staircase leading to the loft Of
the rood-screen, now removed. One
of these doors formed the entrance
from the nave, and another formed the
entrance from the chancel to the foo
of the winding stair in question, and
the third opened high up, on the rood
loft, at the level of the top on the rood
screen spanning the chancei arch
When this screen was removed there
was no further use for the turret stair,
and it was closed in and lost sight Of
till restorations disclosed the door:
leading to 1.-THE QutUer.